Despite boos for the Prime Minister at the Grey Cup on Sunday, new data from the non-profit Angus Reid Institute finds Carney approved of by 52 per cent of Canadians. He’s disapproved of by 39 per cent, putting his net approval rating at plus 13. On the other side of the house, the spotlight on Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre...
Industry Minister Melanie Joly says the Liberal government believes Canada "didn't get enough" industrial benefits out of its contract for American-made F-35 stealth fighter jets. Talking to reporters on Parliament Hill today, Joly said the government needs "more jobs created out of the F-35 contract."
Canada is “interested” in potentially procuring the Gripen fighter jet from Sweden’s Saab, Industry Minister Melanie Joly said Tuesday, adding that Canada “didn’t get enough” out of the F-35 fighter jet deals from American firm Lockheed Martin. “We’re looking at both at the same time,” Joly told reporters ahead of a cabinet meeting on Tuesday
A dozen former high-ranking air force officers sent letter backing F-35 purchase. Former high-ranking officers of the Canadian Armed Forces are mounting a defence of the planned acquisition of 88 American F-35 fighter jets, hoping to put an end to the ongoing courtship between the Canadian government and the Swedish firm Saab. According to information obtained by Radio-Canada, a dozen...
The Canadian International Trade Tribunal is asking the government to change its criteria and reissue a multimillion-dollar bid for military night-vision binoculars after finding that the original terms favoured an American supplier over Canadian and European firms.
The tight race between the Liberals and the Conservatives in ballot support continues with the front runners within the margin of error of each other. Canadians continue to be fixated on Trump/US relations and jobs/the economy while Carney maintains an advantage on the preferred PM tracking over Poilievre.
Liberals hold two-point vote intention advantage, 40 per cent to 38 per cent over opposition CPC. Despite boos for the Prime Minister at the Grey Cup on Sunday, new data from the non-profit Angus Reid Institute finds Carney approved of by 52 per cent of Canadians. He’s disapproved of by 39 per cent, putting his net approval rating at plus 13.
Politics over principle is hardly a new story in Ottawa, but Tuesday’s budget vote provided a master class. For weeks the Conservatives huffed and puffed and threatened to blow the Liberals’ house down over their big spending ways. Conversely, the Bloc opposed the budget over its lack of spending on seniors. Green Leader Elizabeth May couldn’t support the budget’s boost...
Just like in a game of chicken, Prime Minister Mark Carney stared down the opposition unafraid of a collision, and on Monday the opposition blinked, swerving at the last minute to avoid sending Canadians to the polls again, and signalling to the Grits they could be dealt with this way. None of the opposition parties wanted to lend Carney their...
At the risk of casting a pall over the sense of jubilance that erupted in the precinct last night in the wake of last night’s make-or-break vote, Process Nerd has a message for both the Liberals whose minority government survived its first real confidence test since the fall sitting got underway and their cross-aisle rivals as well, many of whom...
Prime Minister Mark Carney on Tuesday defended making a commitment to carbon emission targets to get the government's spending plan over the finish line. Carney told reporters before the weekly cabinet meeting in Ottawa that he was "very pleased" his government narrowly won the crucial budget vote on Monday night. "This is about empowering Canadians. It's about helping all Canadians...
There are moments in a city’s history when its resilience is tested — when decisions made in distant boardrooms send shockwaves through our streets, homes, and hearts. Stellantis’ announcement to end production of the Jeep Compass at Brampton’s Assembly Plant is one such moment, threatening the livelihoods of 3,000 workers and shaking our community.
For centuries, alchemists promised and failed to turn lead into gold. What is most astounding is that even after each debunking, these charlatans would repackage their discredited schemes as something new with fresh jargon and different salesmen, luring wave after wave of hopeful dupes eager for golden miracles. Instead of promising to turn lead into gold, today’s alchemist-in-chief, Mark Carney...
Well, that’s settled. Mark Carney’s first budget has passed, the Liberal government lives to fight another day and everyone can feel relief that Canada isn’t getting a Christmas election. But is that relief earned, or justified?
As the dark days of winter descend, the thoughts of anti-government libertarians have once again turned to convoys. This year’s truck protest, planned for Saturday, is being organized to defend the rights of farmers against Big Government in the wake of a recent controversial cull of ostriches on a farm in southeastern BC.
It’s been two weeks since Danielle Smith ended a province-wide teachers’ strike with the most draconian method possible. Surprisingly, her actions have led to widespread support for the teachers; a notable departure for a province that is not known for its championing of unions and labour in general. Smith resorted to invoking the notwithstanding clause of the Charter of Rights...
It’s coming. That’s the word from Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, who promised Albertans a memorandum of understanding between her government and Mark Carney’s that would spell out the path for a new oil pipeline — and the promises she would make on things like the industrial carbon price and support for carbon capture and storage projects to get it. “We...
The Carney government’s self-proclaimed strategy of dealing with Donald Trump has been to hope the obvious contradictions in the U.S. president’s tariff policy would eventually compel him to strike an acceptable trade deal. “We are confident domestic pressures will create an opportunity to come to an agreement in the interests of both economies that puts us in a better position...
The April federal election outcome was dramatically different than what many had been predicting – in fact, assuming – only months earlier. What was expected to be a coronation for Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre instead turned into a hotly contested, close race that led to a new minority Liberal government.
The Major Projects Office’s list of major projects has gotten longer. The new additions include electrical generation projects, mines, and an additional LNG export facility on the B.C. Coast, and more. It’s a good list. It captures both real economic needs and opportunities, and also sprinkles ventures all around the country.
In both marketing and politics, you learn to live with known unknowns. You can’t control when the environment changes, but you can control how ready you are when it does. As we start this week, that’s exactly where we find ourselves: by the end of it, we could be looking at a snap holiday election, triggered not by desire but...
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government may have just inadvertently created a political opportunity for Premier Doug Ford. The so-called “Canada Strong” budget included some alluring promises for Canada’s academic community: $1 billion to recruit 1,000 top-notch international researchers, along with $400 million for infrastructure and instruments to support their programs. Plus, over $250 million for recruiting international assistant professors, post-doctoral...
WITH MORE THAN 400 EMPLOYEES and valued at $6.8 billion, Cohere is one of Canada’s leading artificial intelligence companies. At first glance, it seems perfectly poised to fulfill the federal government’s goals of keeping up with the global AI race and for achieving tech sovereignty from the United States.
The best time to plant a tree is 10 years ago. Or 20. That’s what I was told by the two retired foresters who put 2,000 one-year-old seedlings in the ground on my farm back in 2017. I had signed on with what was then called the 50 Million Tree program run by Forests Ontario, which subsidized plantings for private...
On Nov. 12, Dr. Ivan Zinger, the correctional investigator of Canada, dropped his most recent annual report on the state of prisons. The truth is harsh: mental health supports in prisons are outdated, without sufficiently trained staff, force is used when mental health and therapeutic interventions are needed, and more. Five federally operated regional treatment centres are “not fit for...
Attempting perhaps to turn a story about his own leadership into a story about whether the Canadian news media have unfairly focused on dissent within the Conservative caucus, Pierre Poilievre challenged reporters on Wednesday to pay as much attention to the recent criticism levelled against the federal government's budget by Liberal MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith.
Whether Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first budget is passed by the House of Commons on Monday or defeated – which would prompt another election and yet another distraction from Canada’s affordability crisis – it won’t make any difference to financially struggling Canadians.
A stronger Parliament requires empowering backbenchers, reducing political staff influence and creating real opportunities for independents to be elected and contribute meaningfully.
After Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre said he is not reflecting on his leadership style after losing two MPs last week, the Power & Politics panel of party insiders discusses reaction to Poilievre's comment and looks ahead to Monday's final budget vote — which could bring down the government.
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s announcement Thursday of seven more projects to be referred to the Major Projects Office was much like his first announcement of projects in September. It was underwhelming. It’s not easy to be underwhelming when you’re announcing projects deemed to be “nation-building,” and worth billions of dollars if they were all approved. It was underwhelming because Carney...
The success of the Zohran Mamdani campaign in the New York mayoral race has progressives all over the world taking notice. So it’s not unsurprising that Canadian progressives would look south for some inspiration on how to run a campaign that can actually win over voters.
Over the past decade, I have watched the public mood shift in ways I have not seen in twenty years of tracking opinion. Canadians are not just frustrated. They are unsettled. They are anxious about money, identity, stability, and the future. And they are looking at the people in charge of teams, companies, institutions, and governments to make sense of...
When Mark Carney launched the Major Projects Office in late August, he said it was designed to streamline regulatory approvals and help structure financing for proposals deemed to be in the national interest. Article content The impression left was that the government would move “at speeds not seen in a generation” to secure community consent and unlock private-sector investments for...
We have turned Canada’s major-project announcements into what feels like a raffle, with everyone from investors to businesses to economists checking to see whose number comes up. According to the federal government, there are hundreds upon hundreds of major projects in the federal inventory, 32 considered for Major Projects Office attention, and only 11 hand-picked so far.
Billed as an immediately necessary measure that would unlock investment and spur economic growth, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s signature piece of legislation, Bill C-5, the Building Canada Act, was rushed through Parliament last June — amid outcries from the NDP, the Bloc Québécois and the Green Party — for apparently no good reason. The bill, which grants cabinet the power...
Hundreds of shipments of explosives and fighter jet components have made their way from Canada to Israel by passing through the U.S. over the last two years, a new report by a group of four NGOs alleges, examining export data and U.S. Department of Defence contracts. "These exports are bypassing all of Canada’s export controls because of the way they’re...
At a time when Canada is defending itself in a trade war with the U.S., a new report casts doubt on whether the nation’s immigration policy is able to retain the global talent required to bolster the economy on the home front. Highly educated and skilled immigrants are the most likely to leave Canada within five years of landing, according...
Internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare says it is deploying a fix for an issue that caused global outages for ChatGPT, social media platform X, transit infrastructure and other prominent internet services. Cloudflare said on its status page earlier Tuesday that it identified an issue that was impacting multiple customers. There were reports of widespread 500 errors as well as Cloudflare Dashboard...
As Prime Minister Mark Carney heads to Johannesburg for the G20 summit, Canada and South Africa are talking about a deal to boost bilateral trade and investment that could see more South African wine on Canadian shelves in exchange for gas exports. "We are pursuing a strategic partnership with Canada," South African High Commissioner Rieaz Shaik told The Canadian Press...
Prime Minister Mark Carney's government narrowly passed a crucial budget vote Monday, with four MPs abstaining and Green Party Leader Elizabeth May backing the budget. Members of Parliament voted 170 to 168 on the confidence motion that could have toppled the minority government and triggered a federal election. Conservative MPs Shannon Stubbs and Matt Jeneroux, as
Transferring aircraft will help Ottawa meet NATO's new spending target. Transport Canada will be surrendering most — if not all — of its aviation wing to the Department of Defence in a plan that’s shrouded in secrecy. The move of the federal department’s “core aviation services” was flagged in the recent federal budget. It has the potential to affect the...
Prime Minister Mark Carney's government has narrowly survived a crucial budget vote -- one that could have sent Canadians to the polls this winter but instead propped up the minority Liberal government. Members of Parliament ended weeks of drama and speculation about the Carney government's fate by voting 170 to 168 on a confidence motion that expressed support for the...
New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt said premiers had a "productive" meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney on Monday, mainly to discuss the federal budget and progress on tariff talks with the United States. Noting the impact of U.S. tariffs on New Brunswick, Holt told reporters the group spoke about the plight of the softwood lumber industry and Carney indicated a...
69% think the opposition parties should let the budget pass, including 73% on the left and 51% on the right. Hardly fertile ground for the NDP and the CPC. As the House of Commons approaches confidence votes on Mark Carney’s first budget, they know that to force an election would be to court the ire of the public. It may...
EDMONTON, ALBERTA, CANADA -- Alberta's governing United Conservative Party is suing two of its former caucus members, accusing them of conspiring to damage the party's image and mislead the public.
Members of Parliament will vote Monday evening on Prime Minister Mark Carney's first budget -- a critical vote that could determine whether Canadians go back to the polls less than a year after the last election. The critical budget vote, expected around 6:45 p.m. ET, is a vote of confidence in the minority Liberal government. The Liberals need the votes...
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s minority Liberal government narrowly survived its third confidence vote in as many weeks on Monday, passing the federal budget by a vote of 170-168 and staving off a holiday election. The vote was a make-or-break one for the Liberal government, which is two seats shy of a majority. Leading up to the vote, both the Bloc...
Ontario Premier Doug Ford is defending his government's skills development funding system that allows a minister to hand-pick recipients against the advice of bureaucrats, even after referring an audit of one company to the police. Labour Minister David Piccini has come under sustained fire from opposition parties calling for his resignation since an auditor general's report found his office has...
- A woman whose cousin was killed says the release last week of a man who killed two women is another outrage from a justice system that victimizes Indigenous women and girls.
The Swedish royal family is paying a rare, three-day state visit to Canada this week, bringing with them a delegation of top government ministers and representatives from dozens of Swedish companies. King Carl XVI Gustaf -- Sweden's longest reigning monarch -- and Queen Silvia are in Ottawa and Montreal Tuesday through Thursday. It's their first trip to Canada since 2006...
Cheaper prices at the gas pumps and grocery store helped bring down inflation in October, Statistics Canada said Monday. The annual rate of inflation cooled to 2.2 per cent in October – a tick higher than economists’ expectations but down from 2.4 per cent in September. Gas prices fell 4.8 per cent on a monthly basis in October as retailers...
Appearing on the Arlene is Alone podcast, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau reflected on her current relationship with former prime minister Justin Trudeau, emphasizing that despite their separation, they remain connected as co-parents. In August 2023, the pair separated after 18 years of marriage and have three children: Xavier, Ella-Grace and Hadrien. “I’m definitely not a single mom,” she said in her...
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s minority government will face a crucial test on Monday, Nov. 17, as it will face a third and final confidence vote on his budget, Already, Conservatives and the Bloc Québécois have said their MPs would be voting against the government’s fiscal plan, leaving few options for the Liberals to find the two votes needed in the...
Carney's first major step in resetting relations with India happened in June when he invited Narendra Modi to Canada
David McLaughlin says building and maintaining trust requires two-way communication. It's also political capital that leaders can draw upon in tough times. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre needs to reach out to his MPs individually, rather than through the House leader and the whip.
Instead of waiting months, a federal program is now taking years to process the applications of refugees who are living overseas and have a job waiting for them in Canada. As a result, some Canadian businesses are unable to fill positions, while skilled refugees are also in limbo and risk exploitation, arrest or detention. In 2018, the federal government launched...
Liberals have already survived 2 confidence votes on the budget; final vote expected Monday evening. The House of Commons is set for one final vote on the main budget motion that will determine if the fiscal policy can go ahead and if the Liberal Party can keep governing. The Liberal government tabled the budget earlier this month. It calls for...
WINNIPEG -- Prime Minister Mark Carney was on hand in Winnipeg for the 112th Grey Cup game between the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Montreal Alouettes.
WINNIPEG -- One of the federal government's proposed nation-building projects -- the expansion of the Port of Churchill and the rail line that serves the remote northern community -- will require a lot of work, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Sunday.
SHERBROOKE -- Parti Quebecois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon rallied his party faithful Sunday, less than a year from the next provincial election and with a number of important tests to come before then.
A crucial budget confidence vote on Monday could trigger an election. As the federal government faces a crucial confidence vote on its budget Monday, government whip Mark Gerretsen says it is "ready for an election" if one is triggered. In a Sunday interview with Rosemary Barton Live, Gerretsen said his government has reached out to all opposition parties to hear...
"The energy sector has been demonized,” Whitecap Resources CEO laments, as Mark Carney's list of nation-building projects still contains no Alberta pipeline
It’s more economical for the Speaker to live at a hotel than at the official residence in Gatineau Hills, says spokesman Olivier Duhaime. Liberal MP Francis Scarpaleggia, who was elected as House Speaker in May following the last general election, has chosen not to reside at “The Farm,” the Speaker’s official residence in the Gatineau Hills in Quebec, opting instead...
“You could have an incredible political fallout because the prime minister doesn’t have the usual mechanism and folks that could help [him] manage a crisis because he’s all on his own,” said Sen. Hassan Yussuff. “I think the government needs to scramble now to get to get ready [for the CUSMA review].”
Texas cannot use a new congressional map drawn by Republicans in hopes of securing the party additional U.S. House seats, a panel of three federal judges ruled Tuesday.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House is headed towards a vote Tuesday on legislation to force the Justice Department to publicly release its files on the late financier Jeffrey Epstein, the culmination of a monthslong effort that has overcome opposition from President Donald Trump and Republican leadership.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- When President Donald Trump doesn't like someone, he knows how to show it. In just the last few days, he's described Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene as a traitor, mocked Rep. Thomas Massie's second marriage after his first wife died and demanded that comedian Seth Meyers get fired from his late-night television show.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House is expected to vote Tuesday on legislation to force the Justice Department to publicly release its files on the late financier Jeffrey Epstein, the culmination of a monthslong effort that has overcome opposition from President Donald Trump and Republican leadership.
President Donald Trump welcomed Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to Washington on Tuesday as the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia makes his first White House visit since the 2018 killing of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi agents.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Meta has prevailed over an existential challenge to its business that could have forced the tech giant to spin off Instagram and WhatsApp after a judge ruled that the company does not hold a monopoly in social networking.
Internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare says it is deploying a fix for an issue that caused global outages for ChatGPT, social media platform X, transit infrastructure and other prominent internet services. Cloudflare said on its status page earlier Tuesday that it identified an issue that was impacting multiple customers. There were reports of widespread 500 errors as well as Cloudflare Dashboard...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump said Friday that he had successfully eased hostilities between Cambodia and Thailand, saying that he'd been able to preserve a previous, U.S.-brokered ceasefire that had appeared to be breaking down.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. military's 20th strike on a boat accused of transporting drugs has killed four people in the Caribbean Sea, a Pentagon official said Friday, coming as the Trump administration escalates its campaign in South American waters.
Violent crime in Canada’s cities has not only risen – it has become a growing threat affecting urban communities across the country. While headlines often focus on year-to-year fluctuations in crime, the Urban Violent Crime Report, Volume 2 reveals a deeper and more troubling reality: over the past decade, violent crime has increased significantly across Canadian cities, spreading beyond Toronto...
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Pierre Poilievre’s recent video attacking Mark Carney could have been a strong argument. If not for the air quotes. When he says Carney promised he could “handle Trump” and “negotiate a win,” his fingers twitch into the familiar inverted-comma gesture. It’s a tiny move, but it says everything. Air quotes don’t persuade; they perform. They turn conviction into commentary and...
As Prime Minister Mark Carney said, “Donald Trump wants to break us so America can own us.” But what if Trump decides to use military power along with economic tariffs? An Arctic expert writing in The Globe and Mail says we shouldn’t think of tanks or helicopters streaming over the border. Instead, an American show-of-force could begin with a single...
I am very worried that Canada is sleepwalking into potentially the most dangerous military project since the atom bomb. Trump’s Golden Dome will put thousands of weapons in space – one of the few places where there are no weapons today – and lock us into a new Cold War with Russia and China that will rob our children and...
Sam Konnert brings host Noor Azrieh into the room where it happened. Plus, the Liberals say they’re “taking back control” of Canada’s immigration system. They’re study permits and temporary residents by half. But what happens to the 3 million people already here? Noor talks to immigration expert Rupa Banerjee about whether this is a fix… or the start of Canada’s...
Over 75 years ago, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was established and signed by the newly formed United Nations after the atrocities of the Second World War to create a roadmap that establishes that every single person, regardless of who they are or where they’re from, has inalienable, inherent rights that the world must protect. But if you’ve been...
As the U.S. House aims to vote on a bill this week to force Donald Trump’s Justice Department to make the Jeffrey Epstein files public, the president is now calling for Republicans to vote in favor of the files’ release. It’s a noticeable change of heart that comes after Trump was named in newly released emails obtained by Congress that...
Ottawa is pretty much laser-focused on the budget these days – the substance and the politics surrounding it – and that’s what we’re primarily going to spend the hour on today. Plus, the resurgence of industrial policy, effectiveness of the Major Projects Office, managing floor crossers while in government, managing unrest in caucus, and leadership’s attempts to deal with it...
